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Oracle 10g Overview of the Globalization Development
Kit and Its Components
The general lack of knowledge about the
complexity of globalization concepts and APIs makes designing and
developing a globalized application a difficult task for even for
the most experienced DBAs and developers. The Globalization support
infrastructure is a key base of knowledge that must be understood by
DBAs at the conceptual level, and by developers at the foundation
level, who work within an Oracle database to provide globalization
services. The required developer knowledge extends to the properties
of the different character sets, territories, languages, and
linguistic sort definitions.
DBAs need to understand how the choice of the
base character sets for their database will limit the choices for
developers. Another critical developer skill is to be able to design
and write code that is able to simultaneously support multiple
clients running on differing operating systems with differing
character sets and locale preferences.
The purpose of Oracle Database 10g's
Globalization Development Kit (GDK) is to provide a toolkit that
simplifies the development process, reducing the cost of developing
internet applications that support a global environment. The mission
of the GDK is to provide developers with tools to facilitate the
globalization of their internet applications, including the
configuration of the different components in each tier to the coding
of the application, and the design and testing of the globalization
logic to the deployment of the application.
Documentation, a comprehensive set of programming APIs (Java and
PL/SQL), and example multilingual test data and code samples are
included in the Oracle Database 10g Release 1 of the GDK. They
address many of the design, development, and deployment issues
encountered while creating global applications. It is promised that
the GDK will also include tools that will assist in configuration
testing and troubleshooting of globalization problems in future
releases.
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